Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 92
A month afterwards he came again to wish us good-bye, and brought with him a large fish for my mother.
Who acts: Aphtanides · What happens: come, wish, bring · To what, where: us, large fish
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aphtanides), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 month | det |
| 2 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 wish | mark |
| 8 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | advcl |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 wish | iobj |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wish | xcomp |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 bye | punct |
| 12 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 10 good | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brought | cc |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fish | det |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fish | amod |
| 20 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 mother | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Aphtanides | again; month | afterwards property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | wish | to-infinitive | Aphtanides not said here | us | good property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot we=Theme | |||
| 3 | bring | past | Aphtanides not said here | a large fish | with Aphtanides; for my mother | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fish=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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